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    Vintage Compact Macs in TV & Movies

    Not only does The Net have Macs, it has clones and possibly the best footage of the MacWorld floor from that year.
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    68kmla MIA

    Heh. I love that I know exactly who you're referring to.
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    ABQ Retro Computers Holiday Techstravaganza III. - Dec. 14th

    Despite having to rush to get a new venue, things went very well! I'll try and post a few pics on our site later today!
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    ABQ Retro Computers Holiday Techstravaganza III. - Dec. 14th

    ABQ Retro Computers will be having our third annual Techstravaganza at Highland Senior Center (131 Monroe St, Albuquerque, NM) on Saturday, December 14th from 11 - 3! abqretrocomputers.com
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    Yet another dead(?) Power Mac 9600/300

    For what it's worth, my Tsunami 9600 always needed a "running start" no matter what media I used. Had to Power On > Chime > Power Off > Power On again and it would come up correctly.
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    PC Compatibility Card freezing during Win 95 install

    I don't see why not. All of the basic hardware requirements are present on the card, unless there's some low-level things that are absent.
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    PC Compatibility Card freezing during Win 95 install

    I've tried a few more times since my last post. Each hanging around the same time towards the end of install. I'll try another 95 disk in the next week.
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    PC Compatibility Card freezing during Win 95 install

    Come to think of it, I have not. Worried about that little plastic clip, but I'll try that now.
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    PC Compatibility Card freezing during Win 95 install

    Unfortunately, it's still randomly hanging after updating to 2.1.7.
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    PC Compatibility Card freezing during Win 95 install

    It's the Apple manufactured one, and I have not. I'll give that a try.
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    PC Compatibility Card freezing during Win 95 install

    Hey all, I picked up a 12" Pc Compatibility Card a little while ago and I'm trying to install Win 95 on it. It'll install DOS 6.2.2 without issue from floppy, but any method I've tried to install 95 has failed. When trying to use an original CD, I get a "not High Sierra/ISO-9660" error. Using a...
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    ABQ Retro Computers Holiday Techstravaganza 12/17

    For any of you in New Mexico or the surrounding area that want to make the trip, ABQ Retro Computers will be hosting our Holiday Techstravaganza Saturday, December 17th from 10 to 2! This one should feature a wider array of old electronics including calculators and test equipment. We'll see you...
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    Notes on re-pasting the Mac Mini G4 CPU

    Sorry for the slow response. Mine was a 1.42 originally.
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    ABQ Retro Computers Meet September 10th

    Hey all! ABQ Retro Computers will be having another great public meet at Quelab in Albuquerque on September 10th from 10AM to 4:30PM. For those who can't make VCF, we're here for you! Our Meetup page!